Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav - SAMUNDRAGYAAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION

Recently, officials from the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) have brought back 1 lakh girls into the mainstream education system under the `Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav’’.

About Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav:

It was launched by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD), in partnership with the Ministry of Education and UNICEF
Objective: Enhancing enrolment and retention of girls between 11-14 years of age in school.
The initiative intends to build on the existing schemes and programmes like Schemes for Adolescent Girls (SAG), BetiBachaoBetiPadhao (BBBP) and National Education Policy (NEP) to work on a comprehensive system for out-of-school girls.
Now Ministry of Women and Child Development has decided to club together three programmes under a new scheme — Anganwadi services, poshan Abhiyan and scheme for adolescent girls — since all these had the same nutritional targets.”
In the new scheme, a new category is created in which adolescent girls between 14 and 18 years are covered